CAPITAL ACCESS INTERNATIONAL INTRODUCES HIGHLY ANTICIPATED eMAXX ENHANCEMENTS - - New Asset & Market Share information in eMAXX

Capital Access International announces the addition of the latest industry driven enhancements to eMAXX, its powerful online fixed-income market intelligence service.

March 7, 2002, Murray Hill, NJ -- Capital Access International today announced the addition of the latest industry driven enhancements to eMAXXsm, its powerful online fixed-income market intelligence service. eMAXX provides quick access to fixed-income institutional investors and bondholdings information and is currently used by close to 2,500 global users. The most recent data service enhancements include the addition of more finely-detailed fixed-income asset data, along with the addition of eMAXX-IntelliTrade, a market share analysis module for fixed-income broker/dealers that provides detailed insight to the market for fixed-income securities among U.S. insurance companies. The enhanced version of eMAXX can be accessed by visiting http://eMAXX.capital-access.com.

Enhancements include:
eMAXX-IntelliTrade Module: Accessible through the Market Share menu item, eMAXX-IntelliTrade presents in a series of comprehensive reports all bond trading activity among U.S. insurance companies, monitored by Capital Access through insurance company quarterly Schedule D filings. eMAXX-IntelliTrade provides an overall view of the volume of insurance company fixed-income transactions in each sub-sector of the fixed-income market, including analysis of primary and secondary market trading activity. This unique market intelligence tool enables users to track their firms market share in trading activity with U.S. insurance companies while providing a detailed view of competitors transactions with each buyside account.
Enhanced Asset Data - eMAXX now provides users with a more detailed view of managing firm assets by including expanded asset information for each market sector. Recent changes in investment strategies among European buyside firms necessitated this enhancement," said Michael Ruvo, executive vice president of Global Operations for Capital Access. This development allows Capital Access to portray the more global focus of todays debt capital markets."    

eMAXXs enhanced functionality underscores our commitment to providing essential market intelligence to the fixed-income broker/dealer community through the fastest and easiest-to-use fixed-income data service," said David D. Farrington, chairman and CEO of Capital Access. The market not only wants accurate and timely data, but comprehensive information as well, and they want to be able to access it in one place. The latest enhancements to eMAXX underscore our commitment to making this a reality and to making eMAXX a one stop shop for market professionals."
About Capital Access: Founded in 1989, Capital Access International is the leading provider of institutional fixed-income market intelligence supporting the information needs of broker/dealers, underwriters and debt issuers worldwide. Capital Access is the only company that focuses on the needs of the fixed-income community exclusively, underscoring its premier position in the growing market for fixed-income market intelligence. The company maintains the renowned FINCOMsm database of investor profiles, bondholdings and transaction data. The companys eMAXX Internet data service is used by thousands of institutional sales, trading, investment banking and marketing professionals to manage sales and trading desks, identify new business opportunities and quickly access timely information on bonds and bond buying firms around the world. Capital Access International is headquartered in Murray Hill, New Jersey and maintains a research and sales office in London.

Contact Louisa Ross-Eilender at 800-866-5987 or lross@capital--access.com for more information.
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